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Ding! Dong! Prepare to be downright disturbed. “Amazon is dreaming of a dangerous future, with its technology at the center of a massive decentralized surveillance network, running real-time facial recognition on members of the public using cameras installed in people’s…

House Oversight Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz, along with his Senatorial counterpart Ron Wyden, is tackling something he promised to act on after he was finished excoriating the leaky Office of Personnel Management for ruining the lives of millions of Americans:…

The police body camera industry is the latest to jump on the artificial intelligence bandwagon, bringing new powers and privacy concerns to a controversial technology bolstered by the need to hold police accountable after numerous high-profile killings of unarmed black citizens.…

Totaling 411.9 million images, this is an unprecedented number of photographs Jennifer Lynch | EFF.org Today the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) finally published its exhaustive report on the FBI’s face recognition capabilities. The takeaway: FBI has access to hundreds…

Steps if you’re worried about governments trying to access your phone Micah Lee | The Intercept YESTERDAY, APPLE CEO TIM COOK published an open letter opposing a court order to build the FBI a “backdoor” for the iPhone. Cook wrote that the backdoor, which…

Surveillance blimp crashes on East Coast Joe Biggs breaks down the story of a military blimp that broke free of its’ moorings and just what the military is really using these blimps for. source: Infowars.com

department Policy change to require ‘approval’ for use of controversial surveillance device The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department will be the first in the nation to require a judge’s approval before using the controversial Stingray surveillance device. The department has used…